Why is Shanghai Bund so famous?

Muddy bund: the trail followed by stalkers. The Bund is the place where Shanghainese are most willing to tell stories. If you don't come to Shanghai, it means there is no real Shanghai. In the past, people called Shanghai the Shanghai Beach, and Shanghainese thought this beach meant the Bund. There are all kinds of buildings on the Bund, and countless people have made a fortune there. ?

The Bund in 1880: More than 100 years ago, when the first foreigner's boat came to Shanghai, they saw a very ordinary fishing village. At that time, the Bund was just a path for trackers to walk on. Before 1842, it was still a wilderness. The Huangpu River here has no protective facilities and belongs to the muddy area when the Huangpu River overflows. 1In the summer of 842, the British fleet involved in the Opium War finally arrived in Shanghai. Since the signing of treaty of nanking, four other ports between Shanghai and China have been forced to open. Because foreigners living in Shanghai often walked on this track at that time, they deliberately covered it with cinder and named it Huangpu Beach Road. ?

French adventurers described the Bund in those days like this: "Numerous sewage ditches and rivers crisscross, and graves are everywhere. The low and dirty hut is a broken shed made of bamboo and dry mud. "

The Bund in Colonial Period: Beautiful "Scar"

1928 the bund: 1842 after the first opium war, the Qing government signed the treaty of nanking with Britain, stipulating that Shanghai, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Xiamen and Guangzhou were trading ports. The following year, Baffo, the British captain, came to Shanghai as the first British consul to settle down. 1On October 7th, a three-masted ship named "Water Monster" sailed into Shanghai. On the deck stood British captain Buffel and several attendants. Shanghai County is sometimes called "Little Suzhou", with a population of 270,000 and more than 60 streets. Mu Jiu of Shanghai Daotai Palace did not meet Baffo at the dock, but sent several sedan chairs to take them to Daotai Mansion. Just as Baffo was worried about renting a house, a businessman named Yao found him and offered him 52 rooms in the city, so that Baffo and his four entourage would have a place to live. However, when Yao Shuping proposed an exclusive deal with Bafor, he was flatly rejected by Bafor. British businessmen who arrived in Shanghai later were not so lucky as Baffo. They were turned away and had to build a simple hut outside the north gate wall. Baffour firmly grasped the word "sojourn" ... trade and commerce were unimpeded, and constantly put pressure on the Fair Desk to specify the residence of foreigners, and chose the muddy land beside the Huangpu River as the leased land, which is today's Bund. Baffo chose this muddy land of more than 800 mu as the leased land. First, it is adjacent to Huangpu River in the east and Suzhou River in the north, with convenient land and water transportation. Second, foreign merchant ships must have berths when entering the Huangpu River from the Yangtze River estuary. In addition, there are British warships cruising on the Huangpu River in the east, which makes them feel safer to put their homes under the care of their warships. 1845165438+1October 29th, after two years of negotiations, Gongtaitai and Bafuer signed the "Shanghai Land Charter", which stipulated that the British Commercial Mansion would extend to Lijiachang in the north, Huangpu River in the east, Pidgin in the south and Henan Road in the west, with an area of 830 mu. This charter was once regarded as the fundamental law of Shanghai by foreigners who invaded China. The history of Shanghai Concession began. Shanghai Bund has become the political, financial, commercial and cultural center of western powers in Shanghai. At that time, consulates of various countries were mostly concentrated here. In the year when the land contract was signed, 1 1 houses and 23 foreign firms were built on the Bund. Shanghai Bund is one of the oldest parts of Shanghai Concession. Starting from 1845, today's Bund was designated as a British concession. The British used this area as a dock, paving roads and strengthening river banks here. The houses of British businessmen are also protected by the British army. Because of this concession, countless explorers and businessmen have set foot on this beach. Foreigners like to race horses on the mud beach and run out of a 500-meter-long path, which was called "the road" by Shanghainese at that time. The British call this road the Bund. Since the end of 19, Shanghai Bund has gradually become the fat meat of the invading colonial countries, and the management agencies, banks, hotels and other countries in the concession area have built their decent buildings here. Gradually, the relatively short buildings built here in the early days of the concession were demolished, and new luxury buildings sprang up. There used to be HSBC in Britain. At that time, the British called it "the most luxurious building from Suez Canal to Bering Strait". Since Shanghai became a commercial port in 1846, wealth has piled up here like a myth, and bank buildings have sprung up everywhere. After about a century of construction, it starts from Waibaidu Bridge in the north and ends at Jinling East Road in the south. On this arc with a length of only 4 kilometers, 52 buildings with different styles stand in rows, including English style, French style, Spanish style, Greek style, Renaissance style, Chicago academic style and Baroque style. Gothic spires, ancient Greek domes, baroque colonnades, Spanish balconies ... exude a strong exotic flavor everywhere, and the unique charm makes people linger. By the 1940s, the pattern of Shanghai Bund was basically formed today. In just over a century, Shanghai has jumped from a seaside town to the largest city in the Far East. ?

? You can also visit the bund historical memorial hall.